In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n‘ roll, the beat writers.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

When you feel like it’s too hard to obey God, remember that He will never tell you to do something without giving you the grace, power and ability to do it.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Compared to other animals, we humans enter the world remarkably weak and helpless. We remain relatively weak for many years before we can truly operate on our own.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

I don’t think anybody in America ought to be scared.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

We don’t want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

You don’t need a lot of credentials to be prison guard in a federal prison. And, you know, you give them a set of keys and a weapon, and they’re in power.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world’s definitions.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Nobody’s ever called me Sir Richard. Occasionally in America, I hear people saying Sir Richard and think there’s some Shakespearean play taking place. But nowhere else anyway.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

What then is freedom? The power to live as one wishes.

Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America’s financial traits.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.

The opportunities of America opened out to me the public schools. They carried me to the professional training of an American university. I began by working with my own hands for my daily bread.

The thing is, if you control the Senate meetings, you control the gavel. And the gavel is a very important instrument… an instrument of power. An instrument that establishes the agenda.

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits – they may still be very distant – God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Chicago gave me more music than any other city in America.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

That’s the good thing about being president, I can do whatever I want.

To understand the power of the priesthood, we must know its limitations.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

It’s important that we invest in America – literally. The terrorists wanted to destroy our economy, and we can’t let our system fall apart. We also have to invest in one another.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn’t betray it I’d be ashamed of myself.

America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

I have dual citizenship; it just so happens I live in America. I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood, and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

While victimhood in America is exalted, I don’t think our veterans should join those ranks.

Oh yes, there’s lots of great food in America. But the fast food is about as destructive and evil as it gets. It celebrates a mentality of sloth, convenience, and a cheerful embrace of food we know is hurting us.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.